MINISTRY OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND FIGHT AGAINST HUNGER National Secretariat on Citizenship Income and Bolsa Familia Program
Integrated Programmes Access to food Bolsa Família School food (PNAE) Cisterns Popular Restaurants Urban Agriculture / Community Gardens Food banks Food to specific population groups Healthy food / Health habits promotion Vitamin A and iron distribution Food and nutrition for indigenous groups Food and nutritional education SISVAN Worker feeding (PAT) Basic Food Basket Income Generation Social and professional qualification Solidary Economy and Productive Inclusion CONSADs Poor communities productive organization (PRODUZIR) Ragpickers cooperatives development Oriented productive micro credit Strengthening the Family Agriculture PRONAF Family Agriculture Insurance Harvest Insurance Family Agriculture s Food Acquisition Programme (PAA) ZERO HUNGER STRATEGY Articulation, mobilization and social control Family Home (CRAS/PAIF) Citizenship education and social mobilization Public agents training Help and donations mobilization Alliances with enterprises and entities Social control councils
Bolsa Familia Program Objectives Immediate poverty relief (income) Rupture of the poverty intergenerational cycle (Conditionalities) Family development (complementary actions)
Conditionalities Family counterpart Citizenship rights: Access to health, education and social assistance services Monitoring of the conditionalities in order to identify situations of greater social vulnerability and to guide public power actions
Conditionalities Health and nutrition monitoring: for pregnant women and children aged 0 to 7 School attendance above 85% for children and adolescents aged 6 to 15 Social and educational activities: for children in risk of child labour (PETI) Responsibilities: Bolsa Família managers in association with the Secretariats on Education and Health at the local level
CadÚnico Single Registry CadÚnico Data Family Data Address Household Characteristic Quantity of Vulnerable Members 15.6 MM registered 14.1 MM self reported poor Personal Data Identification Documents Schooling Professional Life Family Relations Participation in Targeted Programs 60.7 MM registered 56.5 MM self reported poor
MINISTRY OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND FIGHT AGAINST HUNGER Secretariat on Food and Nutritional Security Zero Hunger
Brazil in brief Estimated population: 189.5 million habitants IBGE/2006 Area: 8.5 million km² 26 states, 1 Federal District and 5.564 municipalities Poor population: 11.1 million of families (51.4 million of people) 21% of population - PNAD/IBGE - 2004 Population under poverty line: 4.5 million of families 8,2% of population - PNAD/IBGE - 2004 In Brazil, hunger is associated to inadequate access to food, not to its availability Food availability: 3.000 Kcal/per capita day (FAO, 2001)
Zero Hunger Concept Zero Hunger is an strategy used by the Federal Government to ensure the human right to adequate food, giving priority to people who have difficulty obtaining food. Such strategy is part of the food and nutritional security promotion, and contributes to the elimination of extreme poverty and to the citizenship acquirement of the population which is most vulnerable to hunger.
Axis, programmes and actions Access to food Bolsa Família School food (PNAE) Cisterns Popular Restaurants Urban Agriculture / Community Gardens Food banks Food to specific population groups Healthy food / Health habits promotion Vitamin A and iron distribution Food and nutrition for indigenous groups Food and nutritional education SISVAN Worker feeding (PAT) Basic Food Basket Income Generation Social and professional qualification Solidary Economy and Productive Inclusion CONSADs Poor communities productive organization (PRODUZIR) Ragpickers cooperatives development Oriented productive micro credit Strengthening the Family Agriculture PRONAF Family Agriculture Insurance Harvest Insurance Family Agriculture s Food Acquisition Programme (PAA) ZERO HUNGER Articulation, mobilization and social control Family Home (CRAS/PAIF) Citizenship education and social mobilization Public agents training Help and donations mobilization Alliances with enterprises and entities Social control councils
National Secretariat for Food and Nutrition Security Cisterns: viable alternative of water supply for human consumption in the semi-arid. Appropriate technology, the use is easy, unifamiliar use, low cost of maintenance, simple maintenance, high durability. Distribution of Food Baskets to the families in situation of food and nutritional insecurity. For example camped families, quilombolas, families who are victims of public calamities that are disabled to produce or to acquire foods, etc. Urban agriculture: allows the food production using technologies agroecológicas in the urban spaces. Popular Restaurants: They are destined to prepare and commercialize healthful meals, offered with accessible prices in great urban centers. Food Banks: They are an initiative of supplying food from donations. The food is selected, packed and distributed gratuitously to the social assistance entities.
National Secretariat for Food and Nutrition Security Alimentary Education : action to fight the hunger and to stimulate the people to have an adequate and healthful meal. Community Kitchens: They are part of a strategy to offer balanced meals, produced with quality and compatible with the requirements for a healthful meal, they still promote the social inclusion. Food Acquisition Program: Its objective is to guarantee the access to foods in necessary amount, with quality and regularity to the populations in situation of food and nutricional insecurity and to promote the social inclusion by fortifying the familiar agriculture. Food security and Local Development Consortium: They are organized in civil associations without lucrative ends and composed by 1/3 of representatives of public power and 2/3 of representatives of the civil society of each cities. The objective is to develop actions, diasgnostics and projects of food and nutricional security guard and local development, promoting work and income.
Brazil is reducing hunger Income from commercialization of PAA beneficiaries rural production is almost three times higher than the non-beneficiaries. Prices paid by PAA are, among different products, higher than those offered in other forms of commercialization. Strengthening of Women: Access to credit Planning that can be made from the budget Improvement of self-esteem Reduction in the dependence with partners Reduction in the domestic violence
Thank you!!! Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger Minister Patrus Ananias Executive Secretary Arlete Sampaio Zero Hunger Advisory assessoria.fomezero@mds.gov.br www.mds.gov.br www.fomezero.gov.br +55 (61)3433-1241 1241 0800 707 2003
MINISTRY OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND FIGHT AGAINST HUNGER National Secretariat on Social Assistance Unified System for Social Assistance (SUAS)
Unified System for Social Assistance Social Protection in Brazil The Unified System for Social Assistance-SUAS is a public and descentralized policy, composed by services, programs, projects and social assistance benefits. SUAS has the participation of the three levels of government in Brazil: Federal Governement, States and Municipalities, that are responsible to financing and management the policy. Caracteristics of the SUAS: Social Protection as a right of people The financing by three levels of governement Functionality based on family and territory Services, programs and benefits are offer directly for users Social Control (by local concils) Network for social protection composed by state organisms and civil society Oranized in two categories: Basic and Specialized Social Protection
SUAS Basic Social Protection Offer services and programs to families or individuals that are in social vulnerability situation, involving them in the network of social assistance services and other social policies. These services are offered in the Social Assistance Reference Centers- CRAS, where many activities are realized with families and individuals, activities that concernig about familiar relationships, drugs prevention, capacitation for the work, youth issues, and others. The activities are destinated especially to the beneficiary families of the Bolsa Família and the Continuous Cash Benefit Program (BPC).
SUAS Specialized Social Protection Concerns to provide specialized assistance to individuals or families whose rights have been violated as a result of social and personal risk situations, such as: abandonment, violence, abuse ou explotation, homelesseness and child labor, besides those who are facing socialeducational measures (alternative sentences). These services are offered in the Social Assistance Specialized Reference Centers CREAS, where a team of psycologists and social workers are prepared to see the people that need them.
SUAS Continuous Cash Benefit BPC BPC is a constitutional right under Social Assistance Policy, which guarantees income security for the eldrely (over 65 years old) and for the disable, at any age, who are not capable of living independently or working. In both case, they must have a per capita family income that is lower than 25% of the minimum wage (R$ 415/U$ 250).BPC beneficiaries have the right to a monthly minimum wage. The Budget investiment in 2008 is R$ 13 Billion (U$ 8,1 Billion), and is expected to achive 2.800.000 beneficiaries.